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    The surname Croke

    An Irish surname, carried by 1,149 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C620

    Croke: #22,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Croke #22,404, 1,149 people Croke: #22,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Croke #22,404, 1,149 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Croke is more common than 86.2% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Anglicized form of Irish Cróc.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,149 people named Croke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 268,708 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,107.

    #22,404
    rank among US surnames
    1,149
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #21,880)

    Who is named Croke

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    97% of people named Croke identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Croak

    Surnames that sound like Croke

    Croke has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Croke come from?
    Anglicized form of Irish Cróc.
    How common is the surname Croke?
    1,149 people in the United States had the surname Croke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 268,708 Americans. It ranked 22,404th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Croke?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Croke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Croke getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,107 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,149 in 2010, up 3.8%.
    What are other spellings of Croke?
    Croak.